Trump Gives Up Lawsuit To Get Georgia Prosecutor Removed From Investigation

As he prepares for his indictment in Georgia, Donald Trump's legal team made the decision to drop one of their remaining legal challenges to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Trump had filed simultaneous lawsuits in different venues to get Willis removed, one of which was dismissed last week and the other was set to be heard next week. The one for next week has now been dropped, likely because they knew it would end the same way. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened next.

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Donald Trump's lawyers late last week decided that they were going to officially drop a challenge that they had filed in a Georgia court to Fanny Willis, who by the way, it is Fanny Willis. I have been calling her Fanny Willis, I think for the last two years. My apologies. I had a, uh, a, a viewer point that out to me, so I'm sorry it was never intentional. That's what I thought it was. I don't watch other media, so I've never heard anybody else say it. So that's why I mispronounced it for two years. Again, my apology, it is Fanny Willis. So anyway, Trump's lawyers had filed a court challenge to Fanny Willis, Fulton County District Attorney being the one to oversee the prosecution of him. And they've dropped it. Now. They dropped it because last week they had another challenge to Fanny Willis that a judge just totally threw out. Now here's what happened. Trump's people had that first challenge. The one that was decided last week had been filed a little bit ago, but the court had not yet ruled upon it. And according to Trump's legal team, we just waited so long that we decided to go ahead and file it in another court to see if they might be able to rule on a little faster. And now that of course the other judge said, we lose, we're gonna drop the other challenge and just focus on appealing this one.

Yeah, that's not exactly a brilliant strategy there. Now is it? All you did by filing it in another courtroom, uh, was pretty much that judge off. Not to mention the fact that, as the judge pointed out, in rejecting your request, you have proven nothing. You have not proven for one second that Willis is somehow biased against Trump. You mentioned her own political beliefs, which guess what? You're allowed to have those as a human being, as a resident of the United States of America. You can have political beliefs, you can be politically active. You can give money to people, and unless you can prove that her personal political beliefs interfered in the investigation, you have no case. Which of course is why the judge tossed it out last week. But I think it's not just about that for Trump's people, they will appeal that. Sure. I think they saw the writing on the wall.

You know, for a week and a half before today, we had seen beefed up security at the Fulton County Courthouse. First they put up barricades a week and a half ago. Then early last week, they said, all right, all hearings are going digital. We don't want people in the courthouse. Then at the end of last week, it was revealed, oh no, they've beefed up security. They've brought in more people. Everybody knew what was about to happen, and Trump's lawyers also knew what was about to happen. So they said, listen, we're gonna have to pick our battles here. We can't be simultaneously fighting these two court battles, which they could have. By the way. We gotta focus on just the appeal. We gotta drop this one. We got bad stuff coming at us

you know, in DC things are coming up in Manhattan. We've got other bigger fish to fry than continuously losing the case to get Willis thrown off the case. So that's what's happening in Georgia. Obviously a lot of other very important things happening with the Fulton County District Attorney's office, but just know this, Donald Trump's team is basically giving up their fight to remove Willis from the case. Even though they're gonna appeal it, they know that that's a fight. They're never gonna win.